Fifty famous quotes

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
-- Ad Reinhardt

#Art #Years #Fifty

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.
-- Adolf Eichmann

#War #Fifty

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
-- Adolf Galland

#Fifty #Fighter #Used

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
-- Albert Einstein

#World #Fifty #Defining

When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.
-- Albert Payson Terhune

#Sleep #Night #Fifty

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-- Alfred Bester

#Fifteen #Fifty #Wanted

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
-- Allan Gurganus

#Years #Fifty #Lasts

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
-- Andre Malraux

#Fighting #Fifty #Way

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
-- Anne Fortier

#Thinking #Fifty

No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.
-- Anthony Lane

#Writing #Firsts #Fifty

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Smoking #Three #Fifty

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.
-- Barbara Cartland

#Past #Age #Fifty

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
-- Barry N. Malzberg

#Fifty #Truth Is #Given

Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.
-- Basil McRae

#Hockey #Games #Fifty

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
-- Ben Affleck

#Hard Work #Library #Fifty

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.
-- Benjamin Cardozo

#Years #Analysis #Fifty

I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'
-- Bill Nighy

#Play #Trying #Fifty

Writing is fifty years behind painting.
-- Brion Gysin

#Writing #Years #Fifty

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
-- Camille Pissarro

#Ideas #Unity #Fifty

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.
-- Carla Gugino

#Fifty #Shade #Grey

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Age #Fifty #Becoming

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Writing #Literature #Fifty

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Greatest Love #Fifty #Influence

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
-- Chuck Barris

#Fifty #Hundred

Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.
-- Clarence DeMar

#Endurance #Fifty #Six

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
-- Clement Attlee

#Fifty #Fool #Genius

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.
-- Clifford Stoll

#Data #Fifty #Information

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.
-- Dakota Johnson

#People #Fifty #Shade

Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.
-- David Nicholls

#Space #Lenses #Fifty

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.
-- Davy Jones

#Fifty #Killers #Comedy

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#School #Fifty #Quitting

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
-- Doris Lessing

#Book #Doors #Fifty

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
-- Eddie Murphy

#People #Gentleman #Fifty

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
-- Edgar Degas

#Artist #Twenties #Fifty

A man of fifty is responsible for his face.
-- Edwin M. Stanton

#Men #Fifty #Faces

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Dollars #Guests #Fifty

Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.
-- Eli Wallach

#Dollars #Fifty #Cold

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.
-- Ellen Goodman

#People #Age #Fifty

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.
-- Erik Satie

#People #Waiting #Fifty

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
-- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

#Freedom #Minorities #Fifty

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Farewell #Writing #Fifty

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.
-- Erwin Schrodinger

#Self #Fifty #Ancestor

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
-- Finley Peter Dunne

#Care #Fifty #Enough

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Men #Thinking #Fifty

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty
-- G. H. Hardy

#Past #Men #Fifty

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.
-- George Eliot

#Wise #Real #Fifty

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.
-- George MacDonald

#Children #Writing #Fifty

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
-- George Orwell

#Birthday #Fifty #Faces

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
-- George Stigler

#People #Citizens #Fifty

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
-- Gordon Parks

#Cameras #Dollars #Fifty

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
-- Gregory Bateson

#Years #Sphinx #Fifty

There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort ... The need of work is in me.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#Men #Needs #Fifty

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...
-- Gwendolyn Brooks

#Racism #Age #Fifty

For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.
-- Gwethalyn Graham

#Too Late #Fifty #Imagine

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.
-- H. E. Bates

#Girl #America #Fifty

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.
-- Hans Zimmer

#Directors #Fifty #Music Is

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
-- Hedy Lamarr

#Years #Fifty #Packing

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.
-- Henny Youngman

#Book #Reading #Fifty

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."
-- Henry Green

#Birthday #Fifty #Said

Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.
-- Ibrahim Rugova

#Fifty #Today #Economy

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Years #Long #Fifty

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.
-- Jan Brewer

#People #Police #Fifty

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Years #Fifty #Able

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
-- Jennifer Egan

#People #Fifty #Realizing

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Fifty #Pants #Pairs

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
-- John Boyd Orr

#Years #Fifty #Lasts

[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.
-- John Dos Passos

#Mistake #Years #Fifty

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.
-- John Lanchester

#People #Fifty #Thirty

I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.
-- John Muir

#Years #Names #Fifty

I'm fifty years ahead of my time,
-- Joseph Pilates

#Years #Fifty

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.
-- Julian Barnes

#Age #Fifty #Antiques

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.
-- Kina Grannis

#Video #Fifty #Awful

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#Giving #Community #Fifty

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
-- Leonard Baskin

#Years #Holocaust #Fifty

The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum

#Book #Oil #Fifty

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
-- Maggie Smith

#Believe #Past #Fifty

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Night #Insomnia #Fifty

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons
-- Marie Dressler

#Fifty #Lessons #Hardest

Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.
-- Marie Dressler

#Years #Fifty #Littles

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.
-- Mark McGwire

#Player #Special #Fifty

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.
-- Mark Rothko

#Looks #Fifty #Dollars

Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot and do not see... We do now know from instrumentation developed just in the last fifty years more about some of what's out there in the universe.
-- Mary Davis

#Years #Survival #Fifty

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
-- Matsuo Basho

#Fifty #Tire #Haiku

Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that isn't always the case, his attitude is more fruitful since, in the hope of undertaking a hundred projects, followed up by diligent action, the optimist will end up completing fifty. Conversely, in limiting himself to undertake a mere ten, the pessimist might complete five at best and often fewer, since he'll devote little energy to a task he feels to be doomed from the start.
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Attitude #Work Out #Fifty

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
-- Maxine Kumin

#Sleep #Years #Fifty

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.
-- Maya Angelou

#Years #Fifty #Twenties

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.
-- Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#Birthday #Fifty #Too Much

If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win?
-- Michael Badnarik

#Winning #Giving #Fifty

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.
-- Michael Flatley

#Believe #Fifty #Hills

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.
-- Michael Ironside

#Mean #Talking #Fifty

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
-- Mickey Gilley

#Cutting #Dollars #Fifty

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?
-- Mike Gayle

#Life And Death #Snow #Fifty

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.
-- Miriam Hopkins

#Voice #Fifty #Dollars

Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.
-- Nabeshima Naoshige

#Crazy #Men #Fifty

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
-- Nelson A. Miles

#Past #Years #Fifty

When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.
-- Nicole Williams

#Years #Forever #Fifty

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.
-- Norbert Wiener

#Fifty #Speak #Professors

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
-- Olga Korbut

#Years #Three #Fifty

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Alive #Fifty #Drones

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Hair #Long #Fifty